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The word 'skelps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
skelpsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51511
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 7
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of skelps in Corpus

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General Northern

Chapman, Henry , (Facebook 2018) Doric, poetry
s eyre we steadin’s we fair skelps ‘o grun,
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Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
A ship's horn blast skelps his ears. on page 18

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General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Biler steam skelps through the pipes an pistons, on page 30

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
kirns it up! It poonds it and skelps it! It maks it licht and frot on page 76

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
bother! Nae bother at aw! (He skelps aff) on page 43

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
o scunnersome jobs, and then skelps them across the coupon. There on page 74

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Fitt, Matthew Jordan's New Jaiket, (Education Scotland 2014) Central, weans
n jouks. Jordan jinks. Jordan skelps the baw. Go-o-o-o-o-al!
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Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - The Tartanic, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Flaws cam an brocht skelps, then scours o rain.
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Eagle, Andy Lallans 62 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
ovae.net/isn.htm). Gamma rays skelps intae atoms an the smatter ga
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
pecific wird until spellcheck skelps it wi a squiggly wee reid lin
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ns howpless aroon an reckless skelps the dug's bahookie* is ower I(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
the snell air that skelps ye and gies ye the chitters, on page 8

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Paterson, Stuart A. Here’s the Weather, (Scottish Poetry Library 2017) Central, poetry
the snell air that skelps ye and gies ye the chitters,
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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A troo life's short an time skelps on, on page 35

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Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
teacher wasnae blate tae use skelps an dunches for tae redd it oo
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